'The Ex Post Egalitarian Manual for Publishing the Unpublishable': Our Rejoinder

Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, M.‐L.; Maniquet, Francois; Ponthiere, Gregory; Pestieau, Pierre; Zuber, Stéphane

doi:10.2139/ssrn.5043865

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'The Ex Post Egalitarian Manual for Publishing the Unpublishable': Our Rejoinder

16 Pages Posted: 10 Dec 2024

See all articles by Marc Fleurbaey

University of Liège - Research Center on Public and Population Economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute); Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)

Stéphane Zuber

Paris School of Economics (PSE)

Date Written: November 29, 2024

Abstract

Bommier and Schernberg (2024) accuse a group of authors studying the application of ex post egalitarian social evaluation to the problem of unequal longevity of having used unethical methods to succeed in publishing policy conclusions which are "unpublishable," such as killing all the unproductive elderly. This rejoinder focuses on the substance of their disapproval with the targeted analysis and relegates a rebuttal of their attacks on deontology to the appendix.

Keywords: ex post egalitarianism, unpublishable, inequalities, longevity

JEL Classification: D15, D63, I14, J26

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Fleurbaey, Marc and Leroux, Marie-Louise and Maniquet, Francois and Ponthiere, Gregory and Pestieau, Pierre and Zuber, Stéphane, 'The Ex Post Egalitarian Manual for Publishing the Unpublishable': Our Rejoinder (November 29, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5043865 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5043865